And—she was healed of that plague— Μαστιγος,— of that washing and dangerous distemper, with which she had been chastised for so long a time. It was necessary that the ministry of the Son of God should be rendered illustrious by all kinds of miracles, and that all the people of the country where he lived should have both the highest idea, and the firmest persuasion of his power; it was for advancing these great ends, as well as for the sake of the immediate object of his mercy, that the success of this woman's attempt equalled the faith and humility by which she was guided.

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